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  1. Mac mini and Mac Studio orders booming

    · · Nota Bene

    AI boosting Mac sales. Mac mini and Mac Studio orders are facing unusually long shipping delays, stretching up to 4-5 months. This could hint at an upcoming M5 refresh or supply constraints. After a few months of delay,…

  2. AI as Infrastructure

    · · Research

    Build it and they will come? ON September 3, 1821, 37 years after James Watt invented the concept of horsepower and started charging £5/horsepower/year for the use of his steam engine, the first demonstration of the…

  3. iPad at 16

    · · Research

    Redundant or Post-PC? Today marks the 16th anniversary of when Apple released the first-generation iPad. After Steve Jobs announced the ‌iPad‌ on January 27, 2010, it launched a few months later on April 3, 2010. The…

  4. What are the odds of Apple surviving?

    · · Research

    A tale of two Apples What are the odds of it surviving another year, ten years, 50 years? Companies don’t last long. A recent study that analyzed thousands of European firms yielded a corporate life expectancy figure of…

  5. KeyBanc maintains a lack of clarity of thought

    · · Nota Bene

    Is this intentionally unintelligible? From a note to KeyBanc clients that landed on my desktop Monday. “We remain SW AAPL. Our KFLD shows Indexed Spending +37% m/m, which is above the three-year average of +12% m/m, and…